Bottle-stopper.



PATENTED APR '7, 1903.

H S BREWINGTON BOTTLE STOPPER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 7. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY S. BREWINGTON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

BO'TTLJE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,794, dated April 7, 1903.

Application filed July 7, 1902. Serial No.114=,666. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY S. BREWINGTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to bottle-stoppers, and more particularly to means for securing a cork stopper within a bottle-neck.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simple, effective, and inexpensive device for securing a cork stopper Within a bottle-neck, thus avoiding the necessity for Wiring the bottle to retain the cork. 4

A further object of the invention is to pro-' vide a simple and readily-removable cork-securing device the use of which will effect a material saving in the cost of cork stoppers, since a cork of small size'is made to serve the purpose of the larger stopper commonly used.

With these objects and such others asmay be disclosed hereinafter in View the inven-- tion consists of a compressible ring of sheet metal of novel construction and in the combination of said ring with a bottle-stopper and a bottle-neck formed with an internal annular shoulder.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, Figure l is a plan view of a bottleneck with the improvement ap plied thereto and as it appears before pressure is applied. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection showing the ring as it appears after it is flattened by pressure. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of the cork-holding ring attached. Fig. 4 is a perspective View, partly broken away, of a modified form of ring. Fig. 5 is a section showing the modified form of ring applied to a bottle-neck.

The reference-numerall designates a bottle-neck formed adjacent to its upper end with an internal ahnular shoulder 2 and adapted to receive a cork stopper 3.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the numeral 4 designates a cork-holding ring of sheet metal of such thickness as to be readily compressible by means of a die. The ring is formed with a series of radial corrugations 5, which gradually increase in Width from the center outward. After the stopper 3 has been inserted so that its upper end is about flush with the shoulder 2 the ring 4 is placed within the :neck upon the cork and subsequently struck bya die, which flattens out the corrugations,

and thus increases the diameter of the ring, forcing its outer edge under the shoulder, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2. w p

In the modification shown in Figs. 4 and '5 "the ring {P is of concavo-convex form in crosssection, and after it is dropped upon the cork it v is flattened by pressure to force it under the shoulder 2 of the bottle-neck, as shown in Fig. 5. v f- V The ring may be readily removed by'a corkscrew or other implement before the cork is withdrawn, or it may be displaced by the Withdrawal ofthe cork by means of a corkdial corrugations.

'3. The combination with a bottle neck formed with an internal annular shoulder, of

.compressiblering formed with a series of raa stopper, and a holder therefor, comprising a sheet-metal ring formed with radial corrugations and having its outer edge forced under said shoulder by pressure. a

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses;

HENRY s. BREWIN TON.

Witnesses:

ROBERT C. RHODES, E. WALTON BREWINGTON. 

